After serving for three years as the first director of the IMF&#x2019;s Independent Evaluation Office (IEO), Montek Singh Ahluwalia, an Indian national, left the IEO to take up a cabinet-level position as Deputy Chair of India&#x2019;s Planning Commission, which is chaired by the Prime Minister. Christine Ebrahim-zadeh of the IMF Survey spoke with him about his experience at the IEO.